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The QC, Vol. 81, No. 09 • November 3, 1994

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WHITTIER
COLLEGE
November 3,1994
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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
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▲ SPORTS
Senior Leia Castaneda
is featured this week in a
profile highlighting her
four years of athletic and
all-around excellence.
pg 13
ELECTIONS
C A M.P UilS
»
► Returning to Tradition
This week, Homecoming is featured, including
a list of Homecoming activities of past and present.
Learn what alumni used
to come to Homecoming
for, and their impressions
of it now.
pg 15
COLLEGE
M
► Uptown Offers
Diverse Art
The Uptown Association of Whittier sponsors
a n Uptown Artwalk Saturday. Community artists will demonstrate their
crafts, and the event includes a performance by
Whittier College students.
pg 10
JfewsYoe
► Tuesday General Election Day for
Californians
Some of the issues-
Prop. 186-Would replace
private insurance companies
with a state health security fund
Prop. I87~lllegal immigrants would be denied public
education and health benefits
Prop. 188-Would implement statewide smoking restrictions
Proposed COR Constitutional Change
Soundly Defeated in Student Election
► After a week of exposure to
unauthorized campaign
propaganda, students turned
outin recordnumbers this week
to vote down the proposed
lowering of the GPA
requirements for members of
COR.
by JEN SANCHEZ-SALAZAR
QC News Editor
The Constitution ofthe Associated Students of Whittier College will not be amended to lower
the GPA requirements for COR
members to 2.0, as the result of a
student election held Tuesday and
Wednesday.
With 405 votes counted (representing nearly one-third of the
student body), 70 voted in favor
ofthe proposed change, while 335
voted to keep the GPA requirements at 2.2 for At-Large Representatives and 2.5 for Executive
Officers (president, vice president
and secretary).
Voting took place Tuesday and
Wednesday between 11 a.m. and
2 p.m. at the mail room. The
ballot box was monitored by COR
members, student volunteers, and
COR staff Advisor Reuban Rodriguez. In accordance with stan-
Constitutional Vote
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the
student body voted on the proposal to lower
the GPA requirement for all COR positions
to 2.0. The proposal to amend the ASWC
Constitution failed.
nst Changing
GPAReq.
?35 students)
83%
Changing ui
(70 studen
17%
A total of 405 students (31 % of the student body)voted over the two days.
Source: ASWC Election Committee
dard election procedures, students'
names were crossed off an official
list as they turned in their ballots
to avoid duplicate votes, and the
ballot box was never left unattended. Overnight between the
voting sessions it was delivered to
Campus Safety, and remained
locked in their care.
COR Secretary and Chair of
the Elections Committee Julie
Lippincott said the turnout for the
election was impressively large.
"It's pretty amazing that so many
Graphic by Alexander Mackie/QC Graphic/Design Edilor
people came out. People definitely had an opinion on the issue.
They were spewing their opinions
while making out their ballots,"
Lippincott said.
Along with official COR pub-
' licify flyers giving notice of the
upcoming election, unauthorized
"campaign" propaganda marked
the preelection period. Pink posters which read "2.0 *Dumb, Vote
Yes on 2.0", and fluorescent yellow flyers which did not advocate
the change both bore the COR
publicity approval sticker, but according to Lippincott, were not
authorized.
"COR didn't approve stamping any posters," said Lippincott,
"yet people advocating both sides
used the stamp without proper authorization." From now on, only
Lippincott will be able to use the
stamp "Approved by COR" which
identifies flyers as officially authorized publicity. Lippincott will
initial next to the stamp so that
unapproved use of the stamp will
be impossible.
Lippincott speculated that the
widespread publicity about the
issue had led to the large voter
turnout, but doubted whether the
flyers influenced voters in one
direction or another. "I think all
the publicity may have helped
make people aware of the issue,"
said Lippincott, "but I give people
credit not to look at a sign and
decide to vote a certain way just
because a sign tells them to do it."
COR Representative-At-
Large David Fujimoto, who opposed the student election in the
COR meeting two weeks ago, said
he was "glad it turned out as it did.
Students obviously took a stand,
and they obviously came out and
Please see GPA, pg. 6
Student Body
and Diversity
► As Whittier College accepts more
students, the standards are remaining high
and the diversity is increasing.
by BENJAMIN HUBBLE
QC Asst. News Editor
In the last four years, Whittier College's
student body has grown by almost three hundred students. Does this unusual change
mean that the quality of students coming to
Whittier has decreased? Comparing the statistics ofthe current seniors against this year's
freshmen, the answer is no.
According to Thomas L. Enders, the
dean of enrollment, in the fall of 1991, the
total undergraduate enrollment was approximately 1,025, including about 335 freshmen. The total undergraduate enrollment for
the fall of 1994 is 1,302, including 347 freshmen. The increase in size is based on an
aggressive recruitment policy which attempted to have the undergraduate student body
sized at 1,200 by 1996.
C As the undergraduate student body
size surpassed its 1996 goal, the average
grade point average of the incoming fresh
Please see CLASS, pg. 6
FRESHMAN CLASS
Continues to Grow in Size
With Addition of Class of '98
Profile: Class of 1998
Statistics regarding the Freshman class
(the class of 1998) were recently
released. Out ofthe 1712 which applied,
1211 were admitted and 347 enrolled.
SAT Comparison
of 20
class
Freshman Class Entering
1991
Freshman Class Entering
1994
Source: Office of Enrollment
Graphic by .Alexander Mackic/QC Grapic/Design Edilor
ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 81

WHITTIER
COLLEGE
November 3,1994
^ - ^ rNovemDer 5, lyyi
aker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
1
3»,,
'aBBpSW':;-
Wx
ijjjj
... ■■ ■ ''.....■
:
QC File Photo
▲ SPORTS
Senior Leia Castaneda
is featured this week in a
profile highlighting her
four years of athletic and
all-around excellence.
pg 13
ELECTIONS
C A M.P UilS
»
► Returning to Tradition
This week, Homecoming is featured, including
a list of Homecoming activities of past and present.
Learn what alumni used
to come to Homecoming
for, and their impressions
of it now.
pg 15
COLLEGE
M
► Uptown Offers
Diverse Art
The Uptown Association of Whittier sponsors
a n Uptown Artwalk Saturday. Community artists will demonstrate their
crafts, and the event includes a performance by
Whittier College students.
pg 10
JfewsYoe
► Tuesday General Election Day for
Californians
Some of the issues-
Prop. 186-Would replace
private insurance companies
with a state health security fund
Prop. I87~lllegal immigrants would be denied public
education and health benefits
Prop. 188-Would implement statewide smoking restrictions
Proposed COR Constitutional Change
Soundly Defeated in Student Election
► After a week of exposure to
unauthorized campaign
propaganda, students turned
outin recordnumbers this week
to vote down the proposed
lowering of the GPA
requirements for members of
COR.
by JEN SANCHEZ-SALAZAR
QC News Editor
The Constitution ofthe Associated Students of Whittier College will not be amended to lower
the GPA requirements for COR
members to 2.0, as the result of a
student election held Tuesday and
Wednesday.
With 405 votes counted (representing nearly one-third of the
student body), 70 voted in favor
ofthe proposed change, while 335
voted to keep the GPA requirements at 2.2 for At-Large Representatives and 2.5 for Executive
Officers (president, vice president
and secretary).
Voting took place Tuesday and
Wednesday between 11 a.m. and
2 p.m. at the mail room. The
ballot box was monitored by COR
members, student volunteers, and
COR staff Advisor Reuban Rodriguez. In accordance with stan-
Constitutional Vote
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the
student body voted on the proposal to lower
the GPA requirement for all COR positions
to 2.0. The proposal to amend the ASWC
Constitution failed.
nst Changing
GPAReq.
?35 students)
83%
Changing ui
(70 studen
17%
A total of 405 students (31 % of the student body)voted over the two days.
Source: ASWC Election Committee
dard election procedures, students'
names were crossed off an official
list as they turned in their ballots
to avoid duplicate votes, and the
ballot box was never left unattended. Overnight between the
voting sessions it was delivered to
Campus Safety, and remained
locked in their care.
COR Secretary and Chair of
the Elections Committee Julie
Lippincott said the turnout for the
election was impressively large.
"It's pretty amazing that so many
Graphic by Alexander Mackie/QC Graphic/Design Edilor
people came out. People definitely had an opinion on the issue.
They were spewing their opinions
while making out their ballots,"
Lippincott said.
Along with official COR pub-
' licify flyers giving notice of the
upcoming election, unauthorized
"campaign" propaganda marked
the preelection period. Pink posters which read "2.0 *Dumb, Vote
Yes on 2.0", and fluorescent yellow flyers which did not advocate
the change both bore the COR
publicity approval sticker, but according to Lippincott, were not
authorized.
"COR didn't approve stamping any posters," said Lippincott,
"yet people advocating both sides
used the stamp without proper authorization." From now on, only
Lippincott will be able to use the
stamp "Approved by COR" which
identifies flyers as officially authorized publicity. Lippincott will
initial next to the stamp so that
unapproved use of the stamp will
be impossible.
Lippincott speculated that the
widespread publicity about the
issue had led to the large voter
turnout, but doubted whether the
flyers influenced voters in one
direction or another. "I think all
the publicity may have helped
make people aware of the issue,"
said Lippincott, "but I give people
credit not to look at a sign and
decide to vote a certain way just
because a sign tells them to do it."
COR Representative-At-
Large David Fujimoto, who opposed the student election in the
COR meeting two weeks ago, said
he was "glad it turned out as it did.
Students obviously took a stand,
and they obviously came out and
Please see GPA, pg. 6
Student Body
and Diversity
► As Whittier College accepts more
students, the standards are remaining high
and the diversity is increasing.
by BENJAMIN HUBBLE
QC Asst. News Editor
In the last four years, Whittier College's
student body has grown by almost three hundred students. Does this unusual change
mean that the quality of students coming to
Whittier has decreased? Comparing the statistics ofthe current seniors against this year's
freshmen, the answer is no.
According to Thomas L. Enders, the
dean of enrollment, in the fall of 1991, the
total undergraduate enrollment was approximately 1,025, including about 335 freshmen. The total undergraduate enrollment for
the fall of 1994 is 1,302, including 347 freshmen. The increase in size is based on an
aggressive recruitment policy which attempted to have the undergraduate student body
sized at 1,200 by 1996.
C As the undergraduate student body
size surpassed its 1996 goal, the average
grade point average of the incoming fresh
Please see CLASS, pg. 6
FRESHMAN CLASS
Continues to Grow in Size
With Addition of Class of '98
Profile: Class of 1998
Statistics regarding the Freshman class
(the class of 1998) were recently
released. Out ofthe 1712 which applied,
1211 were admitted and 347 enrolled.
SAT Comparison
of 20
class
Freshman Class Entering
1991
Freshman Class Entering
1994
Source: Office of Enrollment
Graphic by .Alexander Mackic/QC Grapic/Design Edilor
ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 81